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“Those who are not very concerned with art want poems or pictures to record for them something they already know - as one might want a picture of a place he loves.”

Knows Want Art Might Poetry Records Concerned

Author:George Oppen

“Most poets who have little or nothing to say are concerned primarily with the way in which they say it ... if it is true that the style of a poem and the poem itself are one, ... it may be ... that the poets who have little or nothing to say are, or will be, the poets that matter.”

Ifs Way May Littles Art Matter Poetry Style Poet Concerned

Book:Collected Poetry and Prose

Source: Collected Poetry and Prose

“It is the unspecified 'you' of modern love poems that I am mostly concerned with here. At least, the addressee is commonly a lover, and the very fact that the name is withheld is offered as a guarantee of the closeness and significance of the relationship.”

Facts Poetry Literature Names Modern Lovers Concerned Guarantees Significance Love Poems Closeness Modern Love

Book:Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

Source: Who Is Ozymandias?: And other Puzzles in Poetry

“Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring with replacing the noun. It is doing that always doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that. Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a great many kinds of poetry.”

Kind Doe Matter Poetry Poet Losing Concerned No Matter What Great Men Poetry Is Betray Avoiding Doing Nothing Nouns

Book:Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Source: Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

“Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.”

Mind Feelings Spiritual Poetry Perfect Poet Concerned Philosophical Passionate Senses Poetry Is Metaphysics Antithesis

Author:Samuel Beckett

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images and establishing mental connections.”

Inspirational Facts Used Poetry Language Poet Creating Concerned Poetic Atoms Describing

Author:Niels Bohr